In early 2006 IBC was invited to introduce its work at a Working Group Meeting on methods used by researchers to estimate armed conflict deaths (organised by the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, 17 Feb 2006).

Well-received by experts at the meeting, On Iraq Body Count summarised the project’s key features and innovations.

Political/social impact: making the work useful to others

  • preserving published information that would otherwise be lost
  • good basis for follow up studies, legal investigations etc.
  • allowing on-line public public interrogation of the database with specific search queries
  • figures have been regularly referenced by UN bodies, human rights monitors and the European Commission

On IBC slide 15

5.3 Political/social impact: making the work useful to others

  1. We are preserving information that it is out there anyway. It is wasteful to let it come out and then, effectively, just disappear.

  2. Recording by place and time makes a good basis for follow up studies, legal investigations etc.

  3. The data is stored in a form which will eventually allow on-line public interrogation of the database with specific search queries.

  4. Our figures have been regularly used by UN bodies, human rights monitors, and the European Commission.

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